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Divina proportione : opera a tutti glingegni perspicaci e curiosi necessaria oue ciascun studioso di philosophia: prospettiua pictura sculptura: architectura: musica: e altre mathematice: suavissima: sotile: e admirabile doctrina consequira: e delecterassi: co[n] varie questione de secretissima scientia

by: Pacioli, Luca, approximately 1445-1517

Publication date: 1509

Topics: Proportion (Art) -- Early works to 1800, Lettering -- Early works to 1800

Publisher: [Venetiis] : A. Paganius Paganinus characteribus elegantissimis accuratissime imprimebat

Collection: getty; americana

Digitizing sponsor: Getty Research Institute

Contributor: Getty Research Institute

Language: Italian

[6], 33, [1] (blank), 27 (i.e., 26), [25], LXI [i.e., LIX], [2] (1 blank) leaves : 31 cm. (fol.)

Author's name from dedication, leaf [2] first series

Title and last leaf in red and black

Similar colophons appear on leaf 27, second foliation and leaf 33 verso of first foliation

Author (in dedication) names Leonardo da Vinci as the artist of drawings on the final 59 leaves

Leaf 25 of first foliation misprinted 17; leaves 14, 16-26 of second foliation numbered 15, 17-27

Lacks plates listed in table as LX-LXI as usual. Plate LIX numbered LXI. Missing ill. possibily omitted by publisher with the obfuscating numbering. Cf. Mortimer and Bertieri

Catalogo ragionato dei libri d'arte e d'antichità posseduti dal conte Cicognara, 341

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No copyright page found. No table-of-contents pages found. Narrow margins. Gutter included to avoid cropping text. Some text is impossible to capture. Foxing.